Specialties
Contemporary

Tim Hawkinson

Lately the pieces have been all different from each other, so each one takes on a different process. Like with the larger scale pieces it's often the case where I don’t even have an idea for something of this size unless there's already a venue set up for it. I would have a specific space in mind already and I start visualizing the work in that space...

But other pieces involve more of a quirky kind of process. Especially depictions of the body. For instance, there was a series of works that I did based on research that involved taking a bath in this black paint...filling the bathtub slowly with this black opaque liquid that would block out my skin and Patty would photograph it every couple of seconds as it crept up and covered me over. Then, layering the photos together resulted in this kind of topographical depiction of the body. And so I used that mapping as the basis for some drawings that I made and also realized three dimensionally in the figures that are in the piece "Pentecost," the big tree piece with the figures tapping on the tree. 

Statement Courtesy of PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/hawkinson/clip2.html

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